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"Gerry's Garden"
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"Summer Garden"
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"About Gardens"
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"Light House Keeper's Home"
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"Lakeside Morning"
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 "Prince Charles" 9" x 12" Oil On Panel |
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"Church Of St Mary, Cortona, IT"
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"Church Of St Benedict, Cortona,
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"Cedar Garden"
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 "Anacapri Lighthouse" 9" x 12" Oil on Panel
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"Summer Afternoon"
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"The Cutting Garden"
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2008 OPAS Competition Honorable Mention  "Morning Fog" 12" x 16" Oil on RayMar Panel
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2010 OPAS
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"Night School"
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"Morning Splendor"
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"Evening Song" |
"Morning Has broken" |
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"Home Sweet Home"
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"Bay Point Beach"
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"The Learned Owl" |
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"Cosy Corner" |
"Positano Window"
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"Positano Morning" |
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"Bay Point"
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"Summer Porch"
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 "The
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"1st Place" 3rd Annual OPAS Plein Air Competition 9/2006 
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"Rhododendron Path" |
"Best of Show" 2nd Annual OPAS Plein Air Competition 9/2005  "Autumn
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"Cuyahoga Valley Sunset"
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"Morning Fog"
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"Carmel Beach"
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 "Top of the Hill Sunset I" Oil 6" x 8" SOLD |
 "Aspen Meadow" Oil 11" x 14" SOLD |
 "Fall Splendor" Oil 9" x 12" |
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 "Rocky
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 "Early Morning Fog" Oil 9" x 12" SOLD |
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"Top of the Hill"
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 "Rocky
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 "Teton Sagebrush" 11" x 14" Oil on Panel |
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"New Harmony Greenhouse"
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"Path to Cypress Grove" |
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"New Harmony Lab"
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"Capturing the mood of the moment and the
effect of light is an important goal in my work."
Carolyn E. Lewis
The art of Carolyn Lewis is inspired by nature, wildlife, and people. It is sensitive without being overly sentimental. Her commissioned portraits of individuals and animals, and her powerful landscapes, are steadily gaining acclaim in national art circles.
In September 2005, Carolyn's first book entitled Land and Light Workshop, Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils was released by North Light Books, and an accompanying video/DVD entitled Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils was released by Teaching Art, Ltd. Her work is also published in The Ultimate Guide to Painting from Photographs, edited by James Markle and Layne Vanover, North Light Books, October 2005. In addition, Carolyn is published as one of 6 artists featured in Artist's Photo Reference - Landscapes by Gary Greene, 2001 and Artist’s Digital Photo Reference, edited by Erin Nevius, also published by North Light Books, 2006. Recently, she has written articles published in Paint Magazine for the Society for All Artists, UK. She has also had her work featured in The Artist's Magazine.
Along with several solo exhibitions, Carolyn Lewis has been selected to exhibit in local, regional and national art competitions. Some of these include the Ohio Plein Air Society Competition, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters at Jackson Hole (WY) and Winter Park, CO, the Carmel Art Festival Invitational Competition, California, the Plein Air Tucson Invitational. Carolyn also participated in the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club National Exhibition 1998, ViewPoint National, Cincinnati Art Club (Ohio), the Akron Society of Artists' Grand Exhibition (Ohio), National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Annual, Oil Painters of America Annual and the OPA Midwestern Regional and many other local and national exhibitions.
Some of Carolyn's honors and awards include an Honorable Mention from The Artist's Magazine 1998 National Landscape Competition where she was ranked in the top 6 out of over 9000 entries. Most recently she was awarded one of 12 finalists for the month of April for the 2005 Raymar Art Competition, "Best in Show" in the 2005 2nd Annual Ohio Plein Air Society Paintout Competition and First Place in 2006, and “Best of Show” at the 2005 Cuyahoga Valley Art Center's The Big Picture Show. She was also selected as one of the top 200 finalists of the prestigious National Art for the Parks Exhibition in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1995, as well as winning "Best of Show" at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center Annual Members' Show, (Ohio). She was one of 29 finalists in the Second Annual Winsor & Newton National Calendar Competition in 1994, and was listed in the top 50 finalists in The Artist's Magazine 1991 National Portrait Competition.
Signature membership status includes: Oil Painters of America, Illinois; Akron Society of Artists, Ohio; Cincinnati Art Club, Ohio; Carolyn also has General membership status in the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center; Ohio; Charter member, Ohio Plein Air Society; Ohio, Portrait Society of America; American Impressionist Society; and, Landscape Artists International.
PUBLICATIONS
Land and Light Workshop, Painting
Mood and Atmosphere in Oils by Carolyn E. Lewis.
North Light Books 2005
Painting Mood and Atmosphere, Video and
DVD demonstration by Carolyn E. Lewis
Teaching Art Ltd., UK 2005
Series of 4 articles (July, September, November 2005 and January 2006) by Carolyn E. Lewis
Paint Magazine, SAA, (The Society For All Artists,) UK
The Ultimate Guide to Painting from
Photographs edited by James Markle and Layne Vanover
North Light Books 2005
Artist’s Digital Photo Reference -
Landscapes edited by Erin Nevius
North Light Books, 2006
Artists Photo Reference - Landscapes by
Gary Greene.
North Light Books, 2001.
1 of 6 featured artists. Featured on cover.
The Artist's Magazine National Landscape
Competition, 1998.
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